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Software Patents In The European Union Continued...

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-can-only-end-badly dept.

Christopher Reimer writes "O'Reilly Policy DevCenter has a nice overview concerning the legalizing software patents in the European Union. From the article: 'The Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID), which seeks to clarify the issue, is still being fought over in the EU and may or may not result in legalizing them. For small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and in particular, free software projects, there is much to lose.'"

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  1. bad news by mirko · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Europe will adopt these patents but first they have to force its population to adopt its corporation-helping constitution as any change will require 100% of its countries to vote for.
    I'm afraid we're stuck. :(

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